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University of Southern California
University of Southern California
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Andrew Fogleman

fogleman@usc.edu

MAJOR FIELD: Later Middle Ages, France

ADVISER: Lisa Bitel

STATUS: ABD
Before beginning graduate work here at USC, I studied philosophy and history at our cross-town rival, UCLA. Calvin Noremore, Claudia Rapp, and Richard Rouse each made an extraordinary impression on me there, but none so much as Boethius in his Consolation of Philosophy. The image of an imprisoned academic contemplating the meaning of life was just the thing I needed to psyche me up for grad school. In fact, it now seems prophetic. My interests have drifted later and more westerly since. My dissertation traces the effects of the medical and naturalistic ideas of Nicole Oresme on theological assessments of religious visionaries in fourteenth-century France.